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Paedophilia and the Catholic church Evil orders (18 March 05:12) |
| The growing scandal about child abuse reaches the top of the VaticanA SUBTLY disquieting photograph greets visitors to the website of the northern Italian diocese of Bozen-Brixen. The dark r... |
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Middle-income and developing countries Crumbs from the BRICs-mans table (18 March 05:12) |
| Emerging powers have helped poorer nations weather the global recessionIN COLD-WAR days America and the Soviet Union vied for influence among the poor world’s minnows. Now the BRICs... |
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People and history Burying myths uncovering truth (11 March 04:13) |
| In the aftermath of fighting or repression, people are often told to forget things. But in free societies, selective memory cannot be imposed for ever THE 15 boxes of bones were wrapped in t... |
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Turks and Armenians The cost of reconstruction (11 March 04:13) |
| It takes many hands to reconcile two peoples so divided by historyFOR centuries, a stone bridge spanning the emerald green waters of the Akhurian River connected the southern Caucasus to th... |
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Distorted sex ratios in India Haryanas lonely bachelors (04 March 04:47) |
| Struggling to cope with a dearth of bridesBALJEET SINGH dandles his baby daughter on his knee, a picture of contented fatherhood. Last year the 37-year-old Hindu truck driver became the envy... |
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Gendercide The worldwide war on baby girls (04 March 04:47) |
| Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societiesXINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong pro... |
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Sanctions on Iran And the price of nuclear power (25 February 04:46) |
| America is rallying its friends to concentrate minds in the Islamic RepublicSURELY it is clear by now, many people feel, that Iran would rather go on enriching uranium than talk to America o... |
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A poll on trust Whats good for General Motors (25 February 04:46) |
| A new pattern in opinions about bureaucrats, business and charity UNTIL recently, opinions about the public and private sectors tended to move in mirror image. Some societies mistrusted the ... |
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Assassinations A time to kill (18 February 04:12) |
| The professional and presumably state-directed killing of a leading Palestinian has been exposed in embarrassing detail. Perhaps such methods have had their day USING subterfuge to entrap an... |
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Assassinations and technology Hitmen old and new (18 February 04:12) |
| Modern technology makes killing easier—but harder to get away with ONLY a decade ago the assassins who killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh would have disappeared into oblivion. Now that is much ... |
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The centre-right Old dogs and new tricks (11 February 04:08) |
| In many prosperous democracies, a crisis-driven backlash against the political right failed to materialise. Why so?“THIS financial crisis”, said Daniel Cohn-Bendit in 2008, ̶... |
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Correction Sir Tim Berners-Lee (11 February 04:08) |
| In last week’s story about governments and data, we called Sir Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the internet. What he really invented was the world wide web. Sorry. This has been correc... |
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Home schooling Classes apart (04 February 04:11) |
| Why some countries welcome children being taught at home and others don’tUNLIKE many of the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” that have sought refuge in America, th... |
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Data and transparency Of governments and geeks (04 February 04:11) |
| In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new waysCorrection to this articl... |
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International adoption Saviours or kidnappers (04 February 04:11) |
| Amid catastrophe in Haiti, a new controversy about adoptionsIT MUST have seemed like a good idea at the time. The New Life Children’s Refuge, a Christian group from Idaho, saw no need ... |
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Scarcity and globalisation A needier era (28 January 04:10) |
| The politics of global disruption, and how they may changeTHE 1990s was “the age of abundance”, argued Brink Lindsey in a book of that title. Round the world, incomes were rising... |
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The resurgence of al-Qaeda The bombs that stopped the happy talk (28 January 04:10) |
| It was too soon to say that Osama bin Laden’s followers were on the wane—but pessimism should not be overdoneONLY a few months ago, intelligence experts were saying that al-Qaeda... |
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Spending on education Investing in brains (21 January 04:07) |
| Should the economic squeeze mean cuts, reform or more spending on education?IN CALIFORNIA the students are revolting—not against their teachers, but in sympathy with them. The state... |
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Education Reaching the poorest (21 January 04:07) |
| Enrolling the world’s poorest children in school needs new thinking, not just more money from taxpayersDAWN has just broken but classes have already started at the village school in Aq... |
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Democracys decline Crying for freedom (14 January 04:15) |
| A disturbing decline in global liberty prompts some hard thinking about what is needed for democracy to prevail MORE than at any time since the cold war, liberal democracy needs defending. T... |
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Universities and Islam Hearts minds and Mecca (07 January 04:12) |
| The rising profile of Muslim students in the Western world WHEN news emerged of the life-story of the Nigerian who tried to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, there... |
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Innovation in global health A spoonful of ingenuity (07 January 04:12) |
| New ideas for raising money for medical care—and spending it IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often le... |
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Agriculture and climate change Why farms may be the new forests (30 December 04:09) |
| In the war against climate change, peasants are in the front line FOR people who see stopping deforestation as the quickest climate-change win, Copenhagen seemed a success. Although there is... |
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Climate change after Copenhagen Chinas thing about numbers (30 December 04:09) |
| How an emerging superpower dragged its feet, then dictated terms, at a draining diplomatic marathon AMID the alphabet soup and baffling procedures of last month’s climate-change confer... |
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Religious freedom Too many chains (17 December 04:32) |
| Two centuries after the French and American revolutions, and 20 years after Soviet communism’s fall, liberty of conscience may be receding again THE Universal Declaration of Human Righ... |
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Climate change and forests Touch wood (17 December 04:32) |
| Everyone agrees on the need to save trees, but the details are still tricky WHATEVER else historians say about the Copenhagen talks on climate change, they may be remembered as a time when ... |
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The Copenhagen climate talks Filthy lucre fouls the air (10 December 04:29) |
| Arguments over money dampened the euphoria that marked the start of talks on a global deal to limit greenhouse gases DESPITE the gloomy talk that preceded the UN climate conference, the open... |
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Refugees and cities Tents come down (10 December 04:29) |
| Tomorrow’s fugitive will live in a slum, not under canvas SAY the word “refugee” and it still conjures up visions of uprooted families who live, for years, in vast camps wh... |
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The Red Cross movement How much evil can you not see (10 December 04:29) |
| Impartiality is still the best policy, a giant humanitarian network says AS EVERY student of warfare knows, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is staunchly, and at times con... |
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Award Natasha Loder (10 December 04:29) |
| Natasha Loder, our Science and Technology correspondent, was chosen by the United Nations Correspondents Association as a recipient of one of this year’s awards from the Prince Albert ... |
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Match-fixing in football Own goals (03 December 04:25) |
| Gamblers like honest football. But the rewards of rigging matches are hugeWHEN dishonesty brings high rewards and low penalties, crime is likely. Add complacency and it becomes a near-certai... |
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Islam and Switzerland The return of the nativists (03 December 04:25) |
| A surprise vote to bar new minarets suggests that suspicion between faiths and cultures, even in calm democracies, runs deeper than liberal types admit THE result was not what was expected ... |
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Fighting poverty in emerging markets The gloves go on (26 November 05:10) |
| Lessons from Brazil, China and IndiaAT THE recent food summit in Rome, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva donned a pair of bright-red boxing gloves labelled “Hunger Free” and wa... |
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The Commonwealth Wider still and weaker (26 November 05:10) |
| An ever-expanding club of (mostly) ex-British colonies needs to develop sharper edges or else shut up shop BRITAIN’S empire, in the sense of overseas territories under United Kingdom s... |
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Food markets How to store and sell more stuff (19 November 04:09) |
| Poor places need more than seeds, fertiliser or even food science IF FOOD aid is epitomised by a single image, it is that of neat bags of grain, stamped with the Stars and Stripes and labell... |
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Feeding the world If words were food nobody would go hungry (19 November 04:09) |
| Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade“THE world’s attention is back on your cause.” That was Bill Gates talking to agricult... |
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The UN and corruption Extracting teeth and other things (12 November 04:33) |
| A new coalition campaigns to stop practitioners of graft paying the price TRY to work out what these states have in common: Algeria, Angola, China, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Venezuela a... |
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Drugs Virtually legal (12 November 04:33) |
| In many countries, full jails, stretched budgets and a general weariness with the war on drugs have made prohibition harder to enforceTHE Green Relief “natural health clinic” in ... |
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Religion and climate change Sounding the trumpet (05 November 04:31) |
| A link-up between faith and greenery brings unlikely people together ENVIRONMENTALISM is a hard corner to fight in Louisiana, a state where oil, gas and chemical companies are big in the eco... |
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Climate change and public opinion Not yet marching as to war (05 November 04:31) |
| Even as politicians and protesters gear up for a fateful climate-change meeting in Denmark, some of their fellow citizens have little stomach for a fight IF THE forthcoming United Nations me... |
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Public-service careers A tough search for talent (29 October 05:23) |
| In many rich countries, grooming young bureaucrats for a changing world is a struggle for their would-be bosses AGED 25 and armed with a master’s degree in water management, Andrew Ree... |
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The pros and cons of biofuels Ethanol tanks (22 October 07:32) |
| More suggestions that biofuels are not an environmental free lunchONCE upon a time, biofuels were thought of as a solution to fossil-fuel dependence. Now they are widely seen as a boondoggle... |
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War crimes and international justice Always get your man (22 October 04:13) |
| Bringing war criminals to justice is a slow business. But the net is wideningWHO, outside the Balkans, now remembers Radovan Karadzic? A hunted man for 13 years, the leader of Bosnia’s... |
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Dirty elections To the rigger the spoils (22 October 04:13) |
| New research on how many countries rig elections and whyHAMID KARZAI’S acceptance this week, through gritted teeth, of a run-off in Afghanistan’s presidential poll is a reminder ... |
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The Roman Catholic and Anglican churches Unleashing the Counter-Reformation (22 October 04:13) |
| The pope makes it easier for Anglicans to convert to Catholicism en masse—but creates a rod for his own backSINCE the Church of England voted 17 years ago to admit women to the priesth... |
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Abortion A bit better (15 October 04:18) |
| A new report on abortion offers glimmers of hopeOPPONENTS of abortion tend instinctively to favour discouraging it with as many legal restrictions as possible. But statistics from the other ... |
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Intersexuality A question of sex (15 October 04:18) |
| Sex is a complicated thing to defineAGREEING that the sports authorities were shabby, intrusive and untruthful in their handling of the case of Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African ... |
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Global-warming diplomacy Bangkok blues (15 October 04:18) |
| Gloom and pragmatism ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summitTHE planet is warming, but the mood among climate negotiators seems as chilly as ever. On October 9th the penultimate round ... |
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The Arctic Mirror mirror on the wall (08 October 04:17) |
| An icy conflict is far from inevitable, despite some heated talkAS ANY nine-year-old knows, the Mirror of Erised—featured in the Harry Potter books—is a magical looking-glass tha... |
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Micronutrients A no-brainer (08 October 04:17) |
| Tiny things whose absence causes a huge, but soluble, problem“THE food and financial crises have refocused the world on how we deal with nearly 1 billion people who go to bed hungry.&#... |
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